Jeff Zinn’s career has ranged from his beginnings as a singer-songwriter in the Boston coffeehouse scene, to character-defining roles on and off-Broadway alongside topline actors such as Elizabeth McGovern, F. Murray Abraham, Jane Anderson and Alfre Woodard. He writes, directs and acts, was founding artistic director of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and managing director of the Gloucester Stage Company. At WHAT he directed The Beauty Queen of Leenane starring Julie Harris. In December 2023, he appeared with acclaimed actress Alfre Woodard in a reading of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters to benefit Wellfleet Preservation Hall. He is the author of The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Off and the creator of the podcast GURUS: The Story of Acting, from Stanislavsky to Succession.